The editor says the Jain ācāryas also composed lexicons (koṣa) to explain such technical terms.…

The editor says the Jain ācāryas also composed lexicons (koṣa) to explain such technical terms. Among those available, ācārya Amṛtanandi's lexicon is important but incomplete: it has twenty-two thousand words, but breaks off within the letter sa at sapta-sapti, perhaps because the author's life ended, and from its scale about 3000 words are estimated lost. In it plant names appear as Jain technical terms, for example abhavya = haṁsapādī, ahiṁsra = vṛścikālī, ananta = suvarṇa (gold), ṛṣabha = pāvaṭhe kī latā, ṛṣabhā = āmalaka, munikharjūrikā = rājakharjūra, vardhamāna = sweet mātuluṅga and white eraṇḍa, vītarāga = āmra (mango). He says such lexicons urgently need to be recovered; a footnote thanks Vaidyarāj Pt. Yallappā of Bangalore, through whose kindness the editor saw this lexicon and received much advice.

Why it is kept for review: Jain medical tradition (technical lexicons) and an acknowledgement.

उपलब्ध कोषों में भी आचार्य अमृतानंदि का कोष महत्वपूर्ण होने पर भी अपूर्ण है। इस कोष में बाइर्स हजार शब्द हैं, फिर भी सकार में जकार अपूर्ण हो गया है।